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Monday 08 Feb 2016 - 11:30 Makkah mean time-29-4-1437
Bonsnian women protest against hijab ban (BBC Photo)
Sarajevo (IINA) – About 2,000 women in Bosnia have protested against a ban on wearing Islamic headscarves (hijab) in courts and other legal institutions, BBC reported.
The ban includes all religious symbols but explicitly mentions the hijab. The women marched for around an hour through the capital, Sarajevo.
Hijab-wearing was banned by the communist authorities while Bosnia was still part of the former Yugoslavia until 1992, when it declared independence.
The protest came in response to a decision by Bosnia's high judicial council, which supervises the functioning of the judiciary, to ban "religious signs" in judicial institutions. Some of the women held signs saying "The hijab is my right".
Protest organizer Samira Zunic Velagic said the ban was a "serious attack against Muslim honor, personality and identity" and said it was aimed at depriving Muslim women of their right to work.
The ban has also been condemned by Muslim political and religious leaders in Bosnia.
Muslims make up about 40 percent of Bosnia's 3.8 million population. The others are mostly Orthodox or Catholic Christians.
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